By M. Karim Faiez and Laura King, king@latimes.com Special correspondent Faiez reported from Kabul, and Times staff writer King from Istanbul, Turkey. Special to The Times, July 24, 2007, From the Los Angeles Times OBITUARIES KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Afghanistan's last king, Mohammed Zaher Shah, died Monday, plunging his battered country into mourning and inspiring a wave of wistful nostalgia for better days. He was 92. Zaher Shah, an ineffectual yet beloved monarch, spent nearly three decades in genteel exile after being ousted in a palace coup in 1973.
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